Maybe, but unlikely. Lasers need line of sight and would generally be a bad idea at the power levels required (basically a weapon), and microwave power transmission requires large receiving apertures. Current "wireless charging" technologies are pretty much universally near field.

Impossible for safety reasons in populated areas. And even ignoring safety issues, the conversion efficiency on beamed power is so low as to make it uneconomical.

I thought the conversion efficiency for microwaves was 80%.

Maybe in a kitchen microwave oven. You're not accounting for transmission path losses and receiver conversion efficiency.

Actually, I think that's a figure including transmission and receiver conversion efficiency, but it doesn't include path losses. That's still quite impressive, though.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/green-tech/solar/japan-d...

That's for short range transmission to a fixed receiver. So not really relevant for powering aircraft.

Such microwave systems have been proposed for solar power satellites. They have useful ranges up to 100's of miles.

How would this work through clouds? The water vapor would in theory block or scatter everything from UV to microwave radiation. Also, I don't want to be near a 1W laser/maser, and if our energy budget is 100kW, you'd need at least a 100,000W laser pointed at your tiny air taxi.

That's called target practice.

These guys do it all the time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtxwT6PQIw8